2015

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Monthly Updates

Monthly update #0300 • April 2015

Monthly update 300 • April 2015 • 2015-04-01 - 2015-04-30

    Movies

    The Imitation Game

    The Grey (2011), directed by Joe Carnahan, follows men who crash in Alaska. Liam Neeson plays Ottway, a hunter who guards oil workers. He knows wolves and death.

    Monthly Updates

    Monthly update #0299 • March 2015

    Monthly update 299 • March 2015 • 2015-03-01 - 2015-03-31

      Development

      About labels and icons

      In the battle of clarity between icons and labels, labels always win.

      Development

      NSCalendar Additions

      NSCalendar offers many tools for working with dates beyond basic NSDateComponents.

      Development

      NSScanner

      NSScanner wraps a string to pull out substrings and numbers. It has properties like caseSensitive (for matches), charactersToBeSkipped (ignores chars), scanLocation (current position), locale (for numbers).

      Monthly Updates

      Monthly update #0298 • February 2015

      Monthly update 298 • February 2015 • 2015-02-01 - 2015-02-28

        Movies

        Interstellar

        Interstellar (2014), directed by Christopher Nolan, follows Cooper, a pilot turned farmer in a dying world. Matthew McConaughey plays Cooper with heart and grit.

        Monthly Updates

        Monthly update #0297 • January 2015

        Monthly update 297 • January 2015 • 2015-01-01 - 2015-01-31

          Monthly Updates

          Monthly update #0296 • December 2014

          Monthly update 296 • December 2014 • 2014-12-01 - 2014-12-31

            Journal

            Why I stopped using Facebook

            On 1 January 2012 I stopped using Facebook. That’s 3 years ago. I didn’t miss it for a second!